Yongmian Zhang, Ph.D.
Researcher
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Office: JEC-7034



Brief Bio

I received Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno. I used to work in Intelligence System Laboratory (ISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to joining ISL at RPI, I worked in Identix Inc. for embedded biometric systems. Currently, I am back to industries as a research scientist, seeking to embed computer vision into silicon.

Research Interests

Information Fusion
Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence
Probability Modeling and Bayesian Graphical Models
Real-time Computing and Embedded Systems

Selected Publications

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Active and Dynamic Information Fusion for Multisensor Systems with Dynamic Bayesian Networks, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, 36(2), April 2006

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Sensor Selection for Active Information Fusion, the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), July 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Active and Dynamic Information Fusion for Facial Expression Understanding from Image Sequence, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol 27(5), May 2005

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Facial Expression Understanding in Image Sequences Using Dynamic and Active Visual Information Fusion, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-03), 2003

Haisong Gu, Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Task Oriented Facial Behavior Recognition System with Selective Sensing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 100, 2005

Qiang Ji and Yongmian Zhang, Camera Calibration with Genetic Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: 31(2), 2001.

Sami Fadali, Yongmian Zhang and Sushil J. Louis, Robust Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Systems Using Genetic Algorithms., IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: 29(5), 1999

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Active and Dynamic Information under Uncertainties, Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003.

Yongmian Zhang, Qiang Ji and Carl G. Looney, Active Information Fusion for Decision Making under Uncertainty, IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion 2002.

Yongmian Zhang and Qiang Ji, Camera Calibration with Genetic Algorithms, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2001.

Yongmian Zhang and Dwight Egbert, Teaching Pre-Calculus Students Electrical Engineering Principles Using Low Cost Hardware, IEEE Conference of Frontiers in Education, 2001

Sushil J. Louis and Yongmian Zhang, A Sequential Similarity Metric for Case Inject Genetic Algorithms. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1999

Sushil J. Louis and Yongmian Zhang, An Empirical Comparison of Randomized Algorithms for Large Join Query Optimization., International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 1998.